We are a generation without farewell, says the German writer Wolfgang Borchert, summarizing the tragedy of his generation that was led into World War II without anyone saying goodbye to it. Perhaps Borchert is the voice most capable of expressing this generation, and that war that left massive material and spiritual devastation in Germany. It also left literary ruin.
Borchert left behind a collection of short stories that his fellow Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Heinrich Böll, describes as “complete masterpieces,” while Egyptian writer Ibrahim Aslan sees in his stories “a sublime expression of the ferocity of all wars without a single direct word.”
In this book, we present to the reader a selection of these stories, and what attracted us to them is the human approach to major topics, such as war and death, love and the feeling of loss, and the artistic expression of them.
From India's diary:
Every stage of a person’s life is beautiful if the person accepts it with its different circumstances. Some of its details remain engraved in the mind, both sweet and bitter, over the years.
Adolescence was one of the most critical stages I went through. At that time, I did not understand how everyone was dealing with me. Was I still a little girl with adult topics forbidden from me, or an older girl who had entered the world of thinkers and responsibilities?
Hind, here, is a face that reflects the aspects of life of many teenage girls in Gulf society and what ramifies this life related to relatives, friends, or other social relationships.
Having gone through adolescence one day, I can say to Hind: There must be hope that you always search for and wait for, despite all the storms you will face in your life and the stumbles in your steps. Know that hope is an inner peace that makes you smile despite the pain.
Trees that stand for birds:
A collection of stories by Emirati writer Obaid Ibrahim Bu Melha. The stories revolve between surreal and absurd sarcasm, human conflict, and the mixing of concepts and ideas with chaos, to discuss the concept of literature and writing, the meaning of life, and the struggle between good and evil in the human soul.
On Animal Farm, the horse Boxer believes everything he is told, and works hard day and night. This pure naivety paves the way for evil people to rule our world. Naivety is not infallible. Gullibility must be accompanied by intelligence, knowledge, caution and foresight. This is wisdom. To be wise, you must know evil and see it clearly, and you must also be naive enough to believe in your ability to resist it. Through his collection of stories, Uday Al-Zoubi seeks to raise a question about the limits of wisdom, and its relationship with naivety. Foolish, unwise naivety, and evil, unnaive wisdom, almost dominate our world, spreading confusion and darkness and making the world a dangerous, ambiguous mixture of things, ideas, and stories.
في هذا الكتاب، الذي نُشرَ للمرة الأولى عام 1908 على صفحات جريدة "المهاجر" لصاحبها أمين غريّب، يتحدّث جبران عن شخصيات تمرّدت على التقاليد الإجتماعية القاسية، أكانت هذه تتخذ شكل زواج قسري أم استبداد إقطاعي أو غير ذلك من الأشكال.
Because today's generation does not like to read introductions, it is a generation of speed and a generation that likes to reach the end in the maximum time, a generation that loves reading but loves abbreviations, and loves writing with symbols, inscriptions and secrets.
Therefore, there is no introduction, but rather a simple beginning to introduce the topics of the book.
I started writing this on Monday, December 5, 2016 in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco.
In this book there are pictures from the world of childhood in its openness to the world of adults, snapshots from the lives of children who receive their first lessons in the school of life and survival, and for the first time look out from the window of their reality and their ages at the world of adults and the prospects for the future that are shaped by an important historical and social stage, which is the Spanish Civil War: Seriousness, fun, drinking, singing, an atmosphere of war, and the sound of bombs. Waiting for a father who will not return, abandoning homes, being displaced from homes, and crossing lines. A life in shelters, a life in mines, the dreams of youth, and teenage love
final call" More than a hundred unforgettable flights at most of the world's airports from the age of eight to the age of fifty. He deserved the title of Badr Ibn Battuta!!! I visited five continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia). The United States of America had the lion's share of visits, as I visited ninety-four states, and only Hawaii and Alaska remained. I rode most of the world's airlines in various classes and visited the world's most famous airports. On every trip, I had beautiful, funny, and some embarrassing situations. Getting lost at airports, being late for a flight, difficult inspections, turbulence, strange travelers, all of this and more I have experienced and I will share some of these stories with you.
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